These include the 1979 energy crisis, the election of Ronald Reagan, the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Chernobyl disaster, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Baby Jessica rescue, Black Monday, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the election of George H. W.

Helium use following World War II was depressed but the reserve was expanded in the 1950s to ensure a supply of liquid helium as a coolant to create oxygen / hydrogen rocket fuel ( among other uses ) during the Space Race and Cold War.

On 4 October 1957 the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 and ignited the Space Race, a part of the Cold War.

The unanticipated announcement of Sputnik 1s success precipitated the Sputnik crisis in the United States and ignited the so-called Space Race within the Cold War.

Space exploration has often been used as a proxy competition for geopolitical rivalries such as the Cold War.

The surprise success precipitated the American Sputnik crisis, began the Space Age and triggered the Space Race, a part of the larger Cold War.

As the Cold War and the Space Race took hold, U-M became a major recipient of government grants for strategic research and helped to develop peacetime uses for nuclear energy.

* The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union gave a peaceful outlet to the political and military tensions of the Cold War, leading to the first human spaceflight with the Soviet Union's Vostok 1 mission in 1961, and man's first landing on another world — the Moon — with America's Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

They existed prior to the Space Race of the Cold War ( between the USSR and the USA.

The mission followed the first two Earth satellites the previous year, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and 2, beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations.

The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as opposing superpowers after World War II and began the Cold War, confronting one another indirectly in the arms race and Space Race.

It also posited the nation's relevance in the Space Age, during the global race for technology of the Cold War.

The history of the United States from 1964 through 1980 includes the climax and victory of the African American Civil Rights Movement ; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War ; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs ; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.

The book, " Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race " was published in 2006.

Taking place a century before the events of " Space Seed ," the episodes (" Borderland ," " Cold Station 12 ," and " The Augments ") featured a group of people from the same genetic experiment that produced Khan and his people.

Geometry of Miracles ( 1998 ) and The Far Side of the Moon (, 2000 ), a solo show in which he juxtaposed the Cold War competition of the Americans and the Soviets in the Space Race with the story of two Québécois brothers — one straight, one gay — and their competitive relationship after their mother's death.

The Cosmosphere museum begins with the earliest experiments in rocketry during the World War II era, explores through the Space Race and Cold War, and continues through modern times with the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.

The AAOmega data will be used in conjunction with observations from satellite observatories ( e. g. Herschel Space Observatory ) and other telescopes around the world ( e. g. the European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope, VISTA ) to critically examine the predictions of the Cold Dark Matter standard cosmological model e. g. the relationship between the number density of dark matter halos and their masses and the relationship between the number density of galaxies and their masses as determined through studying their starlight.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union took the lead in the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.

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The series mixes three different strands: a new monologue by Kneale in which he discusses the genesis and development of the Quatermass serials and their main character ; archival material from the television productions, and from documentary and newsreel coverage of key events of the times in which they were made, such as the Cold War, the advent of nuclear weapons and the embryonic Space Race ; and the dramatised strand, in which the Professor discloses his reasons for reclusion and discusses his demons with a persistent reporter who invades his hermitage ( and ultimately becomes his friend ).

More recent work has included the Gerry Anderson science-fiction series Space Precinct ( 1994 ), the Canadian film Conquest ( 1998 ) and various one-off TV dramas such as Cold Enough For Snow ( 1997 ) and The Hunt ( 2001 ).

Failing to heed the lesson so clearly contained in the satellite treaties, President Truman re-declared the Cold War on March 12, 1947, in the Truman Doctrine, exactly one week after the Herald Tribune editorial was written, and a year after the Cold War had been announced by Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in Truman's presence.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

The treaty was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War.

During the Cold War, the ACLU headquarters was dominated by anti-communists, but many local affiliates defended members of the Communist Party.

Although the role of the ground attack aircraft significantly diminished after the Korean War, it re-emerged during the Vietnam War, and in the recognition of this, the US Air Force authorised the design and production of what was later to become the A-10 dedicated anti-armour and ground-attack aircraft of the Cold War.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

The much-copied storyline was a parable that was metaphorically interpreted in many different ways at the outset of the Cold War.

At one point in the post-WWll / Cold War era, the U. S. Embassy in Bonn was America's largest, " comparable, with its thousands of staff, to the Baghdad embassy today.

In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.

He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation.

The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the development of the Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) – which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.

In 1989, when the Cold War was coming to its end, the army numbered at least 152, 000 regular troops.

Because West Berlin was not officially under the jurisdiction of the Constitution and because of the Cold War, the Bundestag met in Bonn in several different buildings, including ( provisionally ) a former water works facility.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

Widespread interest in the region itself and the term itself was re-discovered by the end of the Cold War, which had divided Europe politically into East and West, splitting Central Europe in half.

The article describes the concepts that became the foundation of United States Cold War policy and was published in Foreign Affairs in 1947.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

During the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.

The Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders and Miscellaneous Illnesses was collated by Zhang Zhongjing sometime between 196 and 220 CE, at the end of the Han dynasty.

In some communist states during the Cold War period, usage of non-religious notation was mandated.

The highly capable BAT-2 was designed to replace the old T-54 / AT-T based BAT-M, but Warsaw Pact allies received only small numbers due to its high price and the old and new vehicles served alongside during the late Cold War.